Prosecutors allege that during Woewiyu’s tenure as NPFL Minister of Defense, the NPFL conducted a particularly heinous and brutal military campaign. Woewiyu ‘wanted Doe gone’Testifying Wednesday, Ambassador Bishop said Woewiyu told him: “he wanted the Doe government gone” and that he Woewiyu was in charge of the military. “Several of his men with him, he said that he was representing the NPFL,” Bishop recalled a meeting with Woewiyu in 1990. “Their objective was to overthrow the government of Doe,” Mr. Cohen said. The witness revealed he ran into Mr. Woewiyu at the ceremony marking a first attempt at reunifying rebel-controlled country with the capital Monrovia.

Source: Front Page Africa June 13, 2018 23:57 UTC